Categories, articles, and menus; that's a theme that we have been exploring all
throughout this Joomla
course, and the multilingual chapter is certainly no different.
We've organized our categories, so that we have an English category, and an Italian
category, and we've nested all of our existing categories inside of the English category.
So, what's up next?
Well, articles of course.
It's time to take all of our articles, and assign languages to them, as well as
create our Italian articles.
So, I'm going to start by going to Content > Article Manager, and all of the
articles that I have existing in this site right now are all English articles.
So it's most convenient right now to go ahead and assign all of these a
language of English.
You see here that my language is currently set to All.
What I need to do is set that to English.
I can use the Batch function again to do this.
So I'm going to check this box here at the top.
All of these articles are going to be assigned English as their language.
So I'm going to click the Batch button here.
And I'm going to say Set Language to English, and say Process.
And now you see all of my articles are assigned the English language.
The next thing I need to do is make my Italian articles.
So I'm going to click the New button,
and I have the translated articles available for you in your Exercise Files, and
the first article here is the Home page.
So this is the line of text that talks about harnessing solar and wind energy, and so forth.
So I'm going to paste that in,
and the Category I'm going to choose is Italian.
And then here inside of Notepad, I'm going to highlight that text, and copy, and
paste here into TinyMCE.
My last step is, over here on the side where it says Language, I want to assign
this to Italian, and then I'm going to say Save & New.
I'm going to repeat this process for the second article.
This is the About page, and so this is the title of the article; that's in
Italian, and this is the main body of the article here.
I'm going to paste that on in here into TinyMCE.
And then, one last thing to do is to format this headline here, go ahead and set
that to be an H2, and we'll set this to be a paragraph.
So we're all set here, and remember to set the language to Italian.
So Save & Close, and you'll find the Italian articles are located inside of the
list of articles here in alphabetical order.
So here's the About us article in Italian, and then further down on the page,
here is the Home article in Italian.